Former President Donald Trump said he plans to testify in his own defense when his criminal case goes to trial next year.
The 77-year-old faces a total of 91 charges across four criminal cases — all as he seeks another term in the White House.
If convicted on all charges, the 2024 Republican front-runner faces a staggering 712 years and six months in prison.
“Oh, yes, absolutely,” Trump said Wednesday in an interview on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
“I hope so, I can’t wait to testify. At the trial, I will testify,” he stressed.
However, the former commander in chief, who attacked special counsel Jack Smith as “crazy,” told Hewitt that he would not see all the things he was prepared to tell the jury.
“If you did and they asked you in the stands, did you order anyone to move the box, how would you answer?” asked the talk show host.
“I’m not answering that question for you, but I’m fully protected under the law,” Trump replied.
“If you read the Presidential Records Act, just read it. You see. I am fully protected under the law. It’s a civil action. It is civil. Now Biden has no civil action,” he continued.
“What he did was a crime. But he had no lunatics on his case. You know, they gave me crazy Jack Smith. She has a normal man. What can I tell you?”
Donald Trump says he will testify in his criminal trial. GC image
Trump’s first scheduled trial is a federal case related to his actions to challenge the 2020 election and will begin March 4, 2024, in Washington, DC.LightRocket via Getty Images
The embattled former president also criticized President Biden, 80, as unfit to lead the country.
“His body is shot, and his mind is worse,” Trump said.
“However, he seems to want to do it. And I hope he does. But he seems to want to do it. But you look at him, and he does not run the government. The people who surround him, who are very smart fascists and communists, they are the people who govern our country.”
Trump and Biden clash on the 2024 ballot despite the former president’s legal troubles.
Trump’s first scheduled trial is a federal case related to his actions to challenge the 2020 election and will begin on March 4, 2024, in Washington, DC — just one day before the critical “Super Tuesday” presidential primary, which could seal victory for the nominee. .
Trump’s fourth trial in Atlanta on state charges related to trying to reverse his narrow loss to Biden in Georgia has not yet been scheduled.Getty Images
Trump is scheduled to face a second criminal trial in New York City starting on March 25, 2024, in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s novel business records case related to alleged hush money payments.
His third scheduled trial, for allegedly mishandling classified records, is scheduled to begin on May 20, 2024, in Miami.
Trump’s fourth trial in Atlanta on state charges related to trying to reverse his narrow loss to Biden in Georgia has yet to be scheduled, although one of his 18 codefendants, Ken Chesebro, will be tried on Oct. 23. 2023, initially. test for prosecutors.
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